Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Ann R Coll Surg Engl · Mar 1981
Foreign bodies in the respiratory tract. A review of forty-one cases.
The nature of inhaled foreign bodies in the respiratory tract and problems in their removal are reviewed with reference to experience in a series of 41 cases, 36 of them in children under 4 years old. Bronchoscopic removal under general anaesthesia is preferred to inhalational therapy and postural drainage.